Pepper Computer Wireless Pad User manual

Brand: Pepper Computer

Model: Wireless Pad

Type: User manual

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Getting Started With Your

Pepper Wireless Pad

Introduction 2

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 5

Charging the battery 5

Using the power button 6

Using the stylus and the touch screen 7

Using the keypads 8

Pepper Setup Helper 10

Downloading a Pepper Desktop program 11

Using the Pepper pad software 12

Getting media onto your pad 15

Cool features of the Pepper pad 15

Keeping Web clippings 15

Sharing from your pad 16

Surﬁng the Web 16

Using e-mail 16

Using instant messaging 17

Using a keyboard and mouse 18

Getting Help 18

Troubleshooting 19

Pepper wireless pad speciﬁcations 20

Pepper Desktop program requirements 20

Index 21

FCC Information 22

Table of Contents

Introduction2

Introduction

The new Pepper wireless pad is a portable

device that you can use to connect to the

Internet anywhere a Wi-Fi

network with

broadband access is available.

Infrared emitters

Microphone*

Lighted left keypad

USB jack

Navigation pad

Composite video out

(cable not included;

see speciﬁcations

on page 20)

Headphone jack

Microphone jack*

*Microphone/Microphone jack: not active;

functionality will be added in a future update.

Stereo speaker

Introduction 3

Because everything is stored on the

Pepper pad, you can also use your pad

offline to write e-mail to send later, to listen

to music you have downloaded, and to

view clippings from Web pages.

Power button

SD/MMC slot

Lighted right keypad

Scroll wheel

AC power jack

Stylus

Stereo speaker

Color LCD

with touch screen

Web Browser

Directly access the Web with the Mozilla™ based

browser. Keep and organize your bookmarks and Web

page clippings. Shop. Read newspapers. Do research.

E-Mail

Send and receive e-mail using the POP3- and

IMAP4-compatible Mail application. Mail downloads

all your messages to your pad from your broadband

provider or corporate e-mail server, remembers every

address you have sent mail to, and automatically

completes known addresses.

Instant Messaging

Stay in touch with your AOL

IM buddies.

Internet Radio

Listen to streaming radio while you’re doing other

things like writing and reading e-mail or writing in

your journal.

Journal

Explore your thoughts, plans, and ideas. Use the rich

text editor and add Web clippings to journal pages to

create a look that is uniquely your own.

TV Remote Control

Control your TV, DVD, VCR, and CD players, and

free yourself from a multitude of separate remote

control devices.

Music, Video, and Photo Libraries

Collect your digital media in the libraries, and let the

libraries organize them for you. Listen to MP3s, watch

MPEGs, and look at your digital photos (and slide

shows, too).

Introduction4

Your pad includes the following applications:

Setting up your

Pepper wireless pad

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 5

The ﬁrst time you turn on your Pepper pad, the Pepper

Setup Helper guides you through the few steps necessary to

get your pad ready to use.

When you take your pad other places—to work, the airport,

the library, a distant city—you’ll have to connect to new

Wi-Fi networks, but this will be quick and easy.

The following sections brieﬂy describe the setting up

process and some of the features of your pad.

Charging the battery

Note: Before you can use the battery to run your pad, you need to charge it.

Although you can set up your pad and use it while the battery is charging,

charging takes more time if the pad is active.

To charge the battery:

1. Open the rubber ﬂap on the lower right side of the pad.

2. Plug the power cord into the AC power jack and into a power outlet.

Charging takes less than two hours if the pad is in sleep mode or turned off.

It may take up to six hours if there is a great deal of activity. The small light next

to the jack is yellow while the battery is charging and green when the battery is

charged and the pad is plugged in. When the pad is using the battery for

power, this light is off.

Once the battery is charged, it holds the charge for approximately four hours of

use or up to a week if the pad is in sleep mode or turned off. If you are using your

pad for things that require little power, such as listening to music with the screen

dimmed, the charge will last longer than if you are using it for activities like

watching movies or browsing the Web that require more power.

You can plug your Pepper pad in at night and charge the battery while you sleep.

The pad will be ready to use wherever you go the next day. The battery cannot be

overcharged, so you don’t need to check on your pad while it is plugged in.

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad6

Using the power button

The power button is on the top right of the Pepper pad. When your

pad is on, this button is lit.

You always use this button to turn the pad on.

You can also use this button to put the pad to sleep or to turn

it off completely.

Putting your pad to sleep

When you haven’t used your Pepper pad for a period of time (the default is

10 minutes), the pad goes to sleep in order to conserve the battery charge.

When the pad is sleeping, the power light pulses slowly.

When you turn your pad on after it has been sleeping, everything starts up

instantly exactly where it was when the pad went to sleep. After the pad

has been in sleep mode, it may take up to 15 seconds to establish a

connection to a wireless network.

If you know you won’t be using your pad for a half an hour or so, you may

want to put it to sleep manually. To put your pad to sleep manually, press

the power button brieﬂy.

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 7

Turning your pad off completely

Note: The Pepper pad is designed to be left on or sleeping. We recommend that

you turn your pad off only if you know you will not be using it for several days.

If you do turn your Pepper pad off completely, the icons for the applications you

were using are still displayed at the bottom of the screen when you turn the pad

on again. You can display the last page you accessed in one of these applications

by just tapping its icon.

To turn your pad off, press the power button for at least three seconds.

When the pad is off, the power light is off as well.

Using the stylus and the touch screen

The Pepper pad has a touch screen, and the stylus provides an easy way to make

a selection or to choose a place to enter text.

Use the stylus with the touch screen as you would use a mouse. A tap is like

the click of the left mouse button. A tap does things like select an item, open

a Web page, move the cursor from one part of the screen to another, or put a

check in a box. When you press the function button and then touch the stylus to

the screen, the stylus acts like the right mouse button and displays a menu if one

is available.

There are several other ways to move around in your Pepper pad:

• use the arrow keys on the navigation pad to move in all four directions and to

highlight items; press the center of the navigation pad or the Enter key to play a

song in Music Library, open a message in Mail, display a photo in Photo Library

• use the scroll wheel on the right to move up and down on any page with a

scroll bar

• use a mouse (see “Using a keyboard and mouse” on page 18)

• use your ﬁnger instead of a stylus

Using the keypads

The Pepper pad uses the standard QWERTY arrangement

with the keys split between the left and right keypads.

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad8

Volume control for media players

Screen Brightness

Tab

Function (light blue key) + any key with a blue character on it

inserts the blue character. The Function key makes it possible for

some alphabetical keys to provide three characters (for example,

r, R with the Shift key, and + with the Function key). Press and

release the Function key and then press the second key.

Control + key provides many control sequences (for example,

ctrl-c copies selected text, and ctrl-v pastes it). Press and release

the Control key and then press the second key.

Keys on the

left keypad

Shift key for capital letters. Press and release the Shift key; then,

press and release the second key.

Space bar

Key Symbols

Note: For the Shift, Enter, Tab, and Backspace keys, the Pepper keypads use the

symbols that are standard on computer keyboards.

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 9

Power button for turning pad on,

putting it to sleep, and turning it off.

Media control keys for use with music, videos, and

streaming radio broadcasts (from the top left, the keys

are Rewind, Forward, Play/Pause, and Stop).

Backspace key for deleting text.

Enter for a new line of text or for choosing the primary action

on a page (for example, if you select a song and press Enter,

the song plays).

Shift key for capital letters. Press and release the Shift key; then,

press and release the second key.

Space bar

Keys on the

right keypad

Pepper Setup Helper

Setting up your Pepper pad takes only a few minutes. The Pepper Setup Helper

will present you with a series of simple screens in which you will enter information

and perform setup tasks.

The Setup Helper takes you through

• Calibrating the touch screen

To make sure that the screen is correctly adjusted, you need to calibrate the

screen with the stylus before you use your pad.

• Connecting to a wireless network

The Pepper wireless pad communicates with any Wi-Fi network.

• Setting the time zone

The Pepper pad uses its date and time settings to stamp things like e-mail. Your

pad has been set for one time zone, which may not be your time zone. Once

you set the time zone, the pad will adjust the time and the date automatically.

• Setting up an e-mail account

You choose your broadband or corporate e-mail server and other settings.

• Setting up instant messaging

The pad gives you both local network and AOL

instant messaging.

You need to provide a few pieces of information before using these features.

With Local Network IM, you can communicate with other Pepper pad and

Pepper Desktop users on your network. With AOL IM, you can communicate

with other AOL IM users.

If you ever need to re-calibrate the screen or change your network, time zone, or

IM settings, open the Settings tab in the Keeper, and select the appropriate icon.

To change your e-mail information, open the Settings tab in the Mail application.

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad10

Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 11

Downloading the Pepper Desktop program

The Pepper Desktop program runs on a Windows computer (with a Macintosh

version in development) and contains the same applications as the Pepper pad.

You can use the Pepper Desktop program the same way you use your pad, but

its two primary functions are as a backup for your pad and as one source of

music, videos, and photos for your pad.

To download and set up a Pepper Desktop program:

1. In a Web browser on the computer on which you plan to install the

desktop program, enter store.pepper.com.

2. Select the Pepper Desktop tab, and follow the downloading instructions.

3. Follow the Desktop Setup Helper instructions.

See “Getting media onto your pad” in the next section for instructions on

getting media from your Pepper Desktop onto your pad.

See the Help tab in the Keeper on your pad for instructions on backing up

your pad to your Pepper Desktop.

Using the Pepper pad software12

The software on the Pepper pad is intuitive to use. You’ll

be surﬁng the Web, reading your e-mail, watching videos,

and downloading music in no time. This brief tour is

designed to familiarize you with the interface.

Using the Pepper pad

software

Page

Find

Status icons

IM window

Web addressTabs Page toolbar

Open application icons

Global toolbar

Using the Pepper pad software 13

Applications and the Keeper application

Note: Everything you put on your pad is saved automatically, so there is no

Save button. When you no longer want to keep something on your pad, you

simply delete it.

The software on your Pepper pad is contained in a number of individual

applications, such as the Web browser application, the Mail application, and

the Video Library application. The Keeper is the application in which you keep

track of all of the other applications and the cross-application settings. When your

pad is turned on, the Keeper icon is displayed on the bottom left of the screen.

Global toolbar

The global toolbar is always displayed at the top of the screen. The buttons in this

toolbar provide a consistent way to perform actions that are common to Pepper

applications. For example, use the Back button to display the previous page in an

application and the IM button to open the instant messaging window.

Below the buttons in the global toolbar, there is a place to enter a Web address

and a place to initiate a search.

Page toolbar

The page toolbar changes depending on the application and what part of the

application is being displayed. For example, there is a Get Mail button in the

page toolbar on the Messages tab page in the Mail application but not in the

page toolbar on the Drafts tab page.

Application pages and tabs

Each application in the Pepper software is comprised of a set of pages or digital

media organized into tabs. An application is something like a loose-leaf binder

with tabs and pages within the tabs. The tabs in a Pepper application are

displayed across the top of the application area below the global toolbar.

Most tabs display a list of the contents in the tab. For example, the Applications

tab in the Keeper displays the icons for the other applications on your pad, and

the Search Site tab in the Web browser application displays a list of familiar Web

sites. To see the contents of a tab, tap the tab.

Tabs are one of the most powerful features of the Pepper software. For more

information about tabs, see Help in the Keeper.

Using the Pepper pad software14

Open application icons

At the bottom of the Pepper pad screen is an area that displays icons for all

of the applications that you currently have open. The left-most open application

icon is always the icon for the Keeper. Tapping one of these icons displays the

application. You can switch between open applications simply by tapping different

application icons.

Instant messaging window

The IM window is the place where you send and receive AOL IM and local network

IM messages. The illustration of the Pepper interface shows the IM window open, but

it will be closed when you display the Keeper for the ﬁrst time. See “Using instant

messaging” on page 17 for more information about instant messaging.

Status icons

Status icons are displayed on the bottom right of the screen. You will always see a

battery icon here. When the battery is charging, this icon displays a lightning bolt.

Otherwise, the icon shows the amount of charge left in the battery.

You will also always see the Wi-Fi connection icon. When your pad is not

connected to a Wi-Fi network, this icon will be displayed with a red X through it.

An instant messaging icon will be displayed when you are logged on to AOL IM or

local network IM.

While you are downloading something from the Web, a download icon will be displayed.

Selecting, opening, and playing

The navigation pad below the left keypad gives you a convenient way to

select an icon or an entry on a tab page. Then, you can open your selection

(if it is an application or something like an e-mail message) or play it (if it is

something like a video).

To select an icon or table entry, use one of the arrow keys to highlight the icon or entry.

To open the icon or play the entry, press the center of the navigation pad

or the Enter key on the right keypad.

You can also play music or a video by pressing the Play media control key on the right

keypad (see page 9 for an illustration of the symbols on media control keys) or by

tapping the icon or the entry with the stylus or your ﬁnger.

Getting media onto your pad

There are several ways to get your photos, music, and other content

onto your pad:

• from a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device or a Secure Digital (SD) card

• via downloads from the Web

• by syncing with the Pepper Desktop program on your PC

To use a USB device or an SD card to put content on your pad:

1. Plug a storage drive or digital camera into the USB port on the left side of your

pad, or insert a memory card in the SD/MMC card slot on the right side.

2. In the Applications tab in the Keeper, tap the icon for one of the libraries.

3. In the library, tap the Add button in the page toolbar (for example, tap the

Add Photos button in Photo Library).

4. On the menu, select one of the USB or memory card options.

To use Sync to put content on your pad:

Note: You can synchronize the contents of your pad and Pepper Desktop (that is,

make the contents identical) from either the pad or the PC. In these instructions,

you sync from your Pepper Desktop to your pad.

1. On your Pepper pad, tap the Settings tab in the Keeper, tap the Sync icon,

and set the Sync password.

2. Log on to the Local Network IM from both your pad and your Pepper Desktop.

3. In one of the libraries in your Pepper Desktop, tap the Add button in the page

toolbar (for example, the Add Photos button in Photo Library).

4. On the menu, select either Select ﬁles from disk or All ﬁles from a folder.

5. Select ﬁles or a folder to put in the library.

6. On the Pepper Desktop, click the Share button in the global toolbar. Then

select Sync with computer.

7. In the dialog box, select your pc, enter the password for your pad, and click

Sync.

Cool features of the Pepper pad

The Pepper pad is designed to make doing things on the Internet easy and fun.

To this end, it has some features that will be new to you. Soon you’ll wonder how

you ever lived without them.

The Keep and Share buttons in the global toolbar represent features that are

unique to the Pepper pad and the Pepper Desktop.

Keeping Web clippings

The Keep button makes saving something from the Web simple. With Keep, you

can save whole Web pages or selected text and images from a Web page for

viewing later. Because these clippings are available when you are offline, as well as

online, you can stock up on interesting news articles and catalog information for

those times when you can’t reach the Internet.

Using the Pepper pad software 15

Sharing from your pad

The Share button gives you a great way to share what you create on your Pepper

pad with other Pepper pad and Pepper Desktop users. For example, you might

create a journal about your vacation in a foreign country, add images from the

Web, and share your journal with friends.

When you are collaborating with someone with a Pepper pad or a Pepper Desktop,

the other person can add pages and images and share your application back to you.

Your travel journal might be such a collaboration.

The sharable applications installed on your pad initially are Journal, Web, Internet

Radio, and Remote Control. You can purchase other sharable applications from the

Pepper Store by selecting the Get Applications button in the Applications page

toolbar in the Keeper.

Surﬁng the Web

The Pepper pad provides ﬂexible and convenient Web browsing that you can

tailor to your habits and interests.

Surf the Web by

• entering a Web address in the address box below the global toolbar and

pressing the Enter key

• selecting the Web icon in the Applications tab in the Keeper and browsing

through the tabs

• selecting a bookmark or another link

Details about the various ways to browse are in the Help tab of the Web application.

Using e-mail

With the Mail application, you can

• download mail from your mail server

• create and send messages

Messages remain in the Drafts tab until you either send them or delete them.

• reply to messages

• forward messages

• create new tabs in which to organize your mail

To launch the Mail application and download e-mail:

Using the Pepper pad software16

1. Tap the Applications tab in the Keeper.

2. Tap the Mail icon on the Applications page.

3. Tap the Get Mail button in the page toolbar.

Because the Mail application remains instantly available when its icon is

displayed at the bottom of the screen, you can get new messages by tapping

the Mail icon and then tapping the Get Mail button in the page toolbar

in the Messages tab.

Using instant messaging

The Pepper pad provides two kinds of instant messaging; AOL IM and Local

Network IM. When you are logged onto either IM, its icon is displayed on the

lower right of the screen.

To open the IM window:

1. Tap the IM button in the Global toolbar.

If an IM icon is displayed on the lower right of the screen, you can also

open the window by tapping it.

2. For IM menu options, tap one of the two IM buttons on the lower left

above the Keeper icon.

To close the IM window, either tap the Hide button in the IM window or the

IM button in the Global toolbar.

AOL Instant Messaging

Note: If you didn’t enter AOL IM information during setup, tap the IM icon in the

Settings tab in the Keeper, and follow the instructions for doing so.

If you had an AOL Instant Messaging account before you got your Pepper pad,

your buddy lists are imported to the pad when you enter your AOL Screen Name

and password and sign on.

If you are new to AOL IM, once you have a Screen Name and Password and sign

on, you can set up buddy lists, send instant messages, and invite people for chats.

You can have only one AOL IM session running at a time using the same Screen

Name. Therefore, if you are logged on from your pad and you log onto AOL IM

from a computer with the same Screen Name, you will be logged out of the

AOL IM session on your pad. Conversely, if you are logged onto AOL IM from

a computer and log on from your pad, you will be logged out of the other

AOL IM session.

Local Network Instant Messaging

Using the Pepper pad software 17

Everyone on your network who is using a Pepper pad or a Pepper Desktop

program is automatically a member of your local IM group. The members of this

group who can receive local messages have an icon next to their names in

the IM window on your pad.

When you are logged onto Local Network IM, the Pepper icon is displayed on the

lower right of the screen.

Using a keyboard and mouse

Note: A keyboard and a mouse are optional devices that may be used with a

Pepper wireless pad.

For entering large amounts of text, you can use a keyboard with your Pepper pad.

For navigation and selection, you can use a mouse.

You can use a wireless Bluetooth

keyboard (and mouse) or connect a keyboard

(or mouse) to your pad via the USB port. With a USB hub, you can connect both a

keyboard and a mouse at the same time.

Connecting a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

Note: In the future, you will be able to use other wireless devices with your pad.

These instructions are for a Bluetooth keyboard; the basic process for making a

connection between a Bluetooth device and a Pepper pad is the same for all devices.

To use a Bluetooth keyboard with your pad:

1. Put your keyboard in Discovery mode.

For instructions, see your keyboard documentation.

2. Tap the Bluetooth icon in the Settings tab in the Keeper.

3. Follow the instructions on the Bluetooth Setup page.

Getting Help

The Pepper pad is easy to use, and you probably won’t need help very often,

but you may appreciate your pad more quickly if you take a few minutes to

familiarize yourself with what Help has to offer.

There is Help for the Pepper pad itself and for each application. Just look for

the Help tabs. This section gives a brief overview of the Help tab in the Keeper.

The Help tab in the Keeper gives you instructions on using your pad and

an overview of features that are common to most of the applications. It also

contains hints for troubleshooting problems that may occur.

There is a report page in this Help tab that you can send to Pepper Support

via the Internet when you have questions, problems, suggestions, or praise.

Our users’ experiences are very important to us, and we hope to hear from you.

In Help, you will ﬁnd your software license, a privacy policy and acknowledge-

ments of third-party software used by Pepper products.

Troubleshooting

Using the Pepper pad software18

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Pepper Computer Wireless Pad User manual

Brand: Pepper Computer

Model: Wireless Pad

Type: User manual

This manual is also suitable for

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Web Browser: Directly access the Web with the Mozilla™ based browser. Keep and organize your bookmarks and Web page clippings. Shop. Read newspapers. Do research.

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